WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1992
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NEW ANCHORAGE FOR DETAINED CRAFT
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A NEW ANCHORAGE WILL BE ESTABLISHED IN
SAI KUNG TO
PROVIDE
MOORING FACILITIES FOR DETAINED CRAFT.
SAID THIS IN IN THE
THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, MR ALISTAIR ASPREY, A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON GILBERT LEUNG KAM-HO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
"WE WILL, IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, ESTABLISH A NEW CRAFT ANCHORAGE AT SHAM TUK, SAI KUNG WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY MOORING FACILITIES FOR 200 DETAINED CRAFT, HE SAID.
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AWAY MR ASPREY SAID THIS NEW ESTABLISHMENT WOULD DO
PIERS NEED TO MOOR SUCH CRAFT AT POLICE
OR AT BUOYS IN
LOCATIONS.
79 DETAINED
DETAINED PROVIDE
WITH THE SCATTERED
VESSELS
WERE AS AT THE END OF LAST MONTH, THERE MOORED ALONGSIDE MARINE POLICE PIERS OR TIED UP TO BUOYS, MOST OF THEM AT ABERDEEN, TAI LAM CHUNG, TUI MIN HOI, MA LIU SHUI AND SAI HO.
WAN
VARIES "THE LENGTH OF TIME THESE VESSELS ARE DETAINED DEPENDING ON THE NATURE OF THE CASE AND THE TIME TAKEN WITH ANY
MR AN AVERAGE PERIOD WOULD BE SIX TO 12 MONTHS, PROCEEDING. SAID.
GREATLY
COURT
ASPREY
WAS ON WHETHER OR NOT A VESSEL
RETURNED TO THE ASPREY SAID THIS WAS UP TO THE COURT TO DECIDE.
OWNERS,
MR
IS
OCCUR WHEN
IN THE EVENT THAT THE COURT DIRECTS ITS RETURN, THE PROCESS
POSSIBLE, THOUGH DELAYS CAN CARRIED OUT AS QUICKLY AS OWNERSHIP IS IN DISPUTE.
OF "IF THE VESSEL IS CONFISCATED BY ORDER
THE RETAINED FOR USE BY
GOVERNMENT, SOLD
BY DESTROYED
THE
OR
COURT, IT IS THE THROUGH
THE MARINE
EITHER
SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT, HE ADDED.
中中
THAT WENT UNKNOWN AS SUCH
SAID MR ASPREY
THE NUMBER OF DETAINED VESSELS AGROUND IN PORT SHELTER IN THE LAST THREE YEARS WAS STATISTICS WERE NOT KEPT.
PROBLEM
SECRETARY CASES WOULD
BE
PROBLEMS AS TO THE POSSIBLE POLLUTION
THE CAUSED,
SUCH IN SAID THE MAIN POTENTIAL POLLUTION WATER POLLUTION FROM THE DISCHARGE OF OIL AND FUEL.
WOULD BE DEALT "ANY FUEL OR OIL SPILLS MANNER BY THE POLLUTION CONTROL UNTIL OF THE
MARINE
WITH IN THE USUAL DEPARTMENT,"
HE
SAID.
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